Sweet Oblivion

It just so happened that day
I had swallowed oblivion
My neck bent at obscene angle
Prevented uvula from any good intent
My eyes round with belladonna
Had stared longingly
Towards someplace lovely
And in the safe distances
Outside myself and the dirty wall
Outside of a house made of cards
Beyond black walls of grinning Jacks
Somewhere inside the celestial body of grace
There, existed love
Existed family
Existed Man bound by God's good covenant
And existed pardon by that same God
And so in that happenstance
Now written, Sweet Oblivion
By touch of warm hand on cold skin
Self was forced out of my flesh
By some merciful act
Of some unknown savior

Sweet Oblivion
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